I put together a really simple, tasty, and low cal soup to snack on tonight from stuff I found in the fridge. I put about 1-2 teaspoons of olive oil into a personal size pot and heated it. Then I threw in some shredded fresh ginger and sizzled it for a few seconds. Then I added some thinly sliced celery and mushrooms and mixed the veggies around a ( Read more... )

I went to the Frida exhibition today at the Walker Art Center. Pretty cool to see her stuff in real life. If I can make it back again before the exhibition ends, I'd like to do it with the audio tour ($6). I didn't stay for as long as I wanted to today because my residents that I took with were done much sooner and I didn't want to keep them ( Read more... )

I went to Curacao with my sis and her friends Oct 25-31. It was fun. Lots of eating, lots of beaching. I got bitten by mosquitoes over 20 times. My sis got bitten maybe twice ( Read more... )

I tried planting herbs (basil and rosemary) this summer but did not succeed. They died on me.

I found a place that offers dim sum everyday! Up until 9pm, can you believe it! Jun Bo in Richfield:

http://www.citypages.com/dish/detail.asp?CID=20430

This quote is funny and true--"No one is going to want to jump into a life you can't wait to get the hell out of."

Nature is so hard to accept sometimes. Yet I go on eating meat...

Oh rats, I let myself peel my nails again. My nails will never be ready for special treatment. I've been trying not to peel so that I could go to that beauty school in Lakeville to get my nails done just for fun. Bad habits are so hard to break ( Read more... )

It seems like everyone has stuff growing in there yards. It makes me want to grow stuff too. Next year I'm going to make a small herb garden, so that I can have easy and free access to fresh herbs when I cook. The stuff they sell in grocery stores is so expensive ( Read more... )

I should have turned in a consolidated loan application before today. Now it's too late. The interest rates have gone up again, nearly 2 friggin percent! I wish I could turn back time. What was I thinking! (About everything but my student loans.) This realization hurts.

Today I threw out my Kraft baking powder and bought Tone's Baking Powder. I just found out from my cookbook that most baking powders out there contain aluminum. Just in case they confirm later that aluminum does cause Alzheimer's, I switched ( Read more... )